# Como hit nine at Lens as Douvikas hat-trick seals record 9-1 win Source: SportsBriefly (https://sportsbriefly.com) Canonical URL: https://sportsbriefly.com/en/soccer/como-hit-nine-at-lens-as-douvikas-hat-trick-seals-record-9-1-win-2026-11-05-morn Language: en Published: 2026-11-05T03:01:06.464+00:00 Updated: 2026-11-05T03:01:06.512976+00:00 > Como beat Lens 9-1 away in the UEFA Champions League on 4 November 2026, equalling the competition's biggest winning margin. ## TL;DR - Como beat Lens 9-1 away in the UEFA Champions League on 4 November 2026, equalling the competition's biggest winning margin. - Anastasios Douvikas scored a hat-trick to reach six goals and become the competition's top scorer this season. - Como recorded the biggest away win in Champions League history, with 11 different players scoring or assisting. ## Key points - Como beat Lens 9-1 away in the UEFA Champions League on 4 November 2026, equalling the competition's biggest winning margin. - Anastasios Douvikas scored a hat-trick to reach six goals and become the competition's top scorer this season. - Como recorded the biggest away win in Champions League history, with 11 different players scoring or assisting. ## A night that rewrote the record books ![File photo of Anastasios Douvikas with Utrecht in 2022, not a photo from the 4 November 2026 match at Lens.](https://api.sportsbriefly.com/storage/v1/object/public/media/api/1793847648026-7hcipe-soccer-inside1-2026-11-05-morning.jpg) Como produced one of the most extraordinary results in UEFA Champions League history on 4 November 2026, beating Lens 9-1 away at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis in the league phase on Matchday 4. Anastasios Douvikas scored a hat-trick, Nico Paz scored once and helped create several more, and five other Como players found the net in a performance that moved from ruthless to historic long before the final whistle. It was Como's third win in four league-phase matches, and it lifted Cesc Fabregas's side to fourth in the table on nine points. The scoreline alone tells only part of the story. The eight-goal margin equals the biggest winning margin in Champions League history, matching Liverpool's 8-0 win over Besiktas in 2007 and Real Madrid's 8-0 win over Malmo in 2015. Como also recorded the biggest away win in the competition's history, and became only the second club to score nine goals in a Champions League match, after Bayern Munich's 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb in 2024. According to FotMob's Opta-based match report, Como were also the first side to have 11 different players score or assist in a single Champions League match, passing the previous record of 10 set by Benfica against Maccabi Haifa in 2022. ## Douvikas strikes early, then strikes again ![File photo of Cesc Fabregas at Web Summit in Lisbon in November 2023, not a photo from the 4 November 2026 match at Lens.](https://api.sportsbriefly.com/storage/v1/object/public/media/api/1793847663630-xya0xn-soccer-inside2-2026-11-05-morning.jpg) Como took the lead in the seventh minute. A short corner led to Luis Milla's cross being knocked down by Maximo Perrone, and Douvikas reacted quickest to prod the ball home from close range. Lens responded with a spell of pressure, and the hosts were briefly awarded a penalty after an incident involving Maxence Caqueret, but the decision was reversed after a VAR check. The reprieve mattered little to the momentum of the match, because Como soon doubled their lead. The second goal, in the 32nd minute, came at the end of a flowing team move. Nico Paz floated a ball to the far post, Alex Valle volleyed it back across goal from the byeline, and Douvikas tapped in his second of the night. Five minutes before half-time, Paz made it 3-0 himself, firing a fierce left-footed shot into the roof of the net after being set up by Douvikas. Lens went into the break beaten on the scoreboard and, increasingly, beaten in every department. ## Six more after the break If Lens hoped the interval would slow Como down, the second half removed any doubt within two minutes. Lucas Da Cunha exchanged passes with Paz and bent a left-footed finish into the far bottom corner in the 47th minute to make it 4-0. Marc-Oliver Kempf then headed in Milla's cross in the 53rd minute, and Douvikas completed his hat-trick in the 57th minute, running onto a Paz pass from midfield, drawing goalkeeper Robin Risser out of position and sweeping the ball home. The hat-trick took Douvikas to six goals in this season's competition, making him its top scorer, and UEFA named him Player of the Match. It also meant he had scored in all four of Como's Champions League matches this season. Mattia Liberali, who had come off the bench, added the seventh in the 62nd minute with an angled drive after getting down the right flank. Lens finally found a reply three minutes later, when Ruben Aguilar volleyed home from a corner to make it 7-1. Como were not finished. Martin Baturina restored the seven-goal cushion in the 69th minute, finishing one-on-one with the goalkeeper after a solo run through the Lens defence. The ninth goal arrived in stoppage time, and it carried its own story: 18-year-old Matteo Papaccioli, on his Como debut, timed his run onto Liberali's pass, beat the offside trap and scored in the 91st minute. The goal was initially flagged offside, but a VAR check confirmed it, completing a 9-1 scoreline that will be quoted for years. ## What the result means For Como, this was more than a big win. Their 19 goals in four Champions League matches equal the most scored by any club in its first four major European matches, matching Queens Park Rangers in 1976, according to FotMob. Paz and Liberali each directly contributed to three goals on the night, while Douvikas scored three and assisted one, underlining how widely the damage was shared. That breadth is the point: this was not one player running riot against a broken defence, but a team attack in which almost every forward move seemed to end with a chance. For Lens, the defeat was the heaviest by a French club in Champions League history, and it left them 33rd in the standings with three points after a third straight defeat in the competition. Their consolation from Aguilar at least gave the home supporters something to cheer, but the wider picture was stark. Lens had started the league phase with a win, yet they were second best from the seventh minute onward in Lens, and the gap only grew as Como's substitutes added fresh energy. The wider lesson may be about belief. Como are playing in their first Champions League campaign, and they have now beaten Manchester United 4-1 at home and produced a record-equalling away win in the space of a few weeks. Fabregas's side did not slow down at 3-0, or at 6-0, or at 8-1. They kept passing, kept running and kept shooting, and the record books now carry their names alongside Liverpool, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. On this evidence, no opponent in the league phase will look at a fixture against Como and expect a quiet night. Mentions: Anastasios Douvikas, Nico Paz, Cesc Fabregas, Lucas Da Cunha, Marc-Oliver Kempf, Mattia Liberali, Ruben Aguilar, Martin Baturina, Matteo Papaccioli, Maxence Caqueret, Luis Milla, Maximo Perrone, Robin Risser, Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens, Como, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Benfica ## Sources - [uefa.com](https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/02ab-21fe508a035b-5eed0199e0b2-1000--champions-league-highlights-and-round-up-como-equal-bigges/) - [fotmob.com](https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/news/1w2549u9iddbg19eozb3z1c2xv-lens-1-9-como-fabregas-men-record-joint-biggest-win-champions-league-history) - [livescore.com](https://www.livescore.com/en/news/football/ligue-1/ucl-rc-lens-1-9-como-douvikas-hat-trick-hero-for-historic-victory-football-italia/)